Jeremiah 17

1 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

1 “犹大人的罪是用铁笔记录的，用钻石镌刻的，写在了他们心坎上和祭坛角上。

2 Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.

2–3 他们的儿女念念不忘他们在绿树下、高岗上和山野间的祭坛和亚舍拉神像。因为他们境内罪恶泛滥，我必使敌人掳掠他们的财宝和丘坛。

3 O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

4 And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

4 他们必失去我赐给他们的产业，被敌人掳到陌生的异乡做奴隶，因为他们激起了我的怒火，永难熄灭。”

5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

5 耶和华说： “信靠世人、倚靠血肉之躯、 心中背叛耶和华的人该受咒诅！

6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

6 这样的人毫无福乐， 像沙漠中的灌木。 他要住在旷野的干旱之处， 住在无人的盐碱地。

7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

7 信靠耶和华、倚靠耶和华的人有福了！

8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

8 这样的人像一棵栽在水边的树， 根扎入溪水旁， 不怕炎热，不怕干旱， 绿叶如荫，不断结果。

9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

9 “人心比什么都诡诈， 无可救药， 谁能识透呢？

10 I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

10 我耶和华鉴察人心， 察看人的意念， 按照各人的所作所为报应人。”

11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

11 谋取不义之财的人就像孵其他鸟蛋的鹧鸪， 他中年便会失去不义之财， 最后成了愚昧之人。

12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

12 我们的圣殿是从太初就矗立在高处的荣耀宝座。

13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

13 耶和华啊，你是以色列的盼望。 凡背弃你的人必蒙羞， 背叛你的人必像写在尘土上的名字一样消逝， 因为他们背弃了活水的源泉耶和华。

14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

14 耶和华啊， 求你医治我，我好痊愈； 求你拯救我，我好得救， 因为你是我所赞美的。

15 Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

15 人们常讥讽我说：“耶和华说的那些事在哪里？ 快应验吧！”

16 But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of my lips was spoken in Your presence.

16 但我并没有逃避做你的牧人， 也没有盼着灾祸临到他们。 你知道我说的每一句话。

17 Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

17 你是我患难中的避难所， 求你不要使我恐惧。

18 Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

18 愿你使那些迫害我的人蒙羞， 不要使我蒙羞； 愿你使他们惊慌， 不要使我惊慌。 求你使他们大祸临头， 彻底毁灭他们。

19 This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.

19 耶和华对我说：“你去站在犹大君王出入的人民门门口和耶路撒冷的各城门口，

20 Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

20 向他们宣告，‘从这些城门进出的犹大君王、所有百姓以及耶路撒冷的居民啊，你们都要听耶和华的话。

21 This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

21 耶和华说，如果你们想保住性命，就要小心，不要在安息日带货物进耶路撒冷的城门，

22 You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.

22 也不要从家中运出货物，不要在安息日做任何工作。要按照我对你们祖先的吩咐守安息日为圣日。

23 Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

23 然而，他们却不理不听，顽固不化，不肯听从和受教。

24 If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

24 “‘耶和华说，你们要留心听我的话，在安息日不可运货物进耶路撒冷的城门，不可做任何工作，要守安息日为圣日。

25 then kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.

25 这样，坐大卫宝座的君王及其官员必乘车骑马和犹大人以及耶路撒冷的居民进入城门。这城必永远有人居住。

26 And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

26 人们必带着燔祭、平安祭、素祭、乳香和感恩祭从犹大的城邑、耶路撒冷四周、便雅悯地区、丘陵、山区和南地去耶和华的殿。

27 But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”

27 但如果你们不听我的话，不守安息日为圣日，仍在安息日运货物进耶路撒冷的城门，我必在各城门点起无法扑灭的大火，烧毁耶路撒冷的宫殿。’”